The two drove back again, only parking the car at the village entrance, and then returned hand in hand to the educated youth settlement.

Yun Ningyan went into the space to wash up, while Huo Junshan washed up in his room. Yun Ningyan disappeared from the room, and Huo Junshan felt a pang of fear. He was afraid that his little girl would disappear.

After washing up, the two fell asleep in each other's arms. Because there were cars on the road, the speed was much faster. It was not yet two o'clock. Huo Junshan held her as they slept, but he couldn't fall asleep. He kept thinking about what Yun Ningyan had said.

He wanted to marry her as soon as possible, but the girl was only eighteen years old, too young. He wanted to wait until she turned twenty before getting married.

As she pondered, drowsiness overcame her, and when Yun Ningyan woke up, Huo Junshan was nowhere to be seen.

She took the house key and went to the house behind the Huo family's house, intending to put the canopy bed and the golden nanmu wood tables and chairs into her spatial storage.

When she arrived, the gate was open, and Huo Junshan was clearing weeds and removing the broken windows.

Huo Junshan saw her approach and asked, "Why did you come here?"

Are you alone?

Huo Junshan nodded. She entered the room and with a wave of her hand, she stored the table, chairs, and canopy bed into her spatial storage.

Huo Junshan was only relieved after confirming several times that she was not feeling unwell.

Yun Ningyan poured him a cup of spiritual spring water. "Drink it. This water is spiritual spring water. It can relieve fatigue and strengthen the body."

Huo Junshan nodded. It turned out that his previous feeling was correct. Every time he drank the water that Yan Yan gave him, he felt light and refreshed.

As it was time to start work, the two walked towards the field.

Huo Junshan wanted to take her hand, but he was afraid that others would see.

Yun Ningyan said softly, "We're not in a hurry about the house, and we're not in a hurry to get married either. We can take advantage of this special period to sell more goods and earn more money. We'll need money for school in the city later."

Huo Junshan thought so too. After he finished his busy work these past few days, he planned to go out and make a few trips.

Yun Ningyan went to gather pig feed, and Huo Junshan went to the field, where the brigade leader was waiting.

"Third brother, the seeds have arrived. Which companies sowed the crops last year? Come out."

A dozen or so people suddenly appeared; they were all skilled at sowing seeds.

The Huo family owns four of them.

Huo Jiangen, Huo Jianjun, Huo Junshan, and Huo Guodong, the eldest son of the brigade leader.

The team leader said a few words in his private room, and then everyone started working.

Once the wheat is planted, the last rain should be enough to sustain it until it sprouts. If it doesn't rain for a while, we'll have to carry water to irrigate it.

Three days later.

The work in the fields is finished.

People who have been busy all year are starting preparations for winter. The only time of year when they plant wheat is not busy, so people can go up the mountain to collect firewood, dig wild vegetables, and pick mushrooms.

Yun Ningyan had her own room and had to heat the kang (a traditional heated bed) herself. She went up the mountain to collect firewood along with the rest of the group.

Huo Junshan originally told her not to go, but she insisted that it would be too unsociable of her not to go. In fact, she wanted to go up the mountain alone to find some good stuff.

The Huo family had many members, so they collected a lot of firewood. Except for Wang Cuihong, who had to stay home to take care of the children, everyone else went up the mountain to collect firewood.

Yun Ningyan went up the mountain with Li Xiangyun and a few other aunties to pick wild vegetables, but she had no experience and her hands were very soft. She accidentally cut her hand. Aunt Li wouldn't let her pick anymore and only told her to dig up some wild vegetables whenever she saw them.

Aunt Guihua teased, "Look at Yun Zhiqing's delicate skin, she'll get a cut if you touch that branch even slightly. You should rest. All the men in the Huo family can do it, how can we let a girl like you gather firewood? If the third son finds out, he'll be heartbroken."

Yun Ningyan wasn't angry; if the big one didn't work, she would just make the small one.

After a busy morning, she returned home with only a small bundle of grains, which she smuggled back using a spatial ability.

She decided to stop picking them up in the afternoon and let Huo Junshan worry about it.

She slowly drifted further and further away from the crowd, secretly running up the mountain in search of something good.

This time she went deep and actually found wild goji berries. She transplanted a small goji berry seedling into her space, along with many other medicinal herbs that she recognized.

She found an aconite with a purple-blue flower in bloom, and she took out a small shovel and carefully planted the aconite into her space.

Astragalus, Schisandra, Codonopsis, Angelica, and more than a dozen other medicinal herbs are all stored in the space.

On her way down the mountain, she found another ginseng, but this one was a bit small and about fifty years old. She moved the ginseng into her spatial dimension.

We're getting ready to head home.

She took out her water bottle and drank two sips of the spiritual spring water. Just as she took two sips, a roar came from afar. It was a tiger!

She was startled, and in her shock, much of the water in her hand spilled onto the ground.

Yun Ningyan's heart skipped a beat. She immediately wanted to enter the space, but a yellow and black figure darted out from the woods. There were three bright horizontal lines on its forehead, the mark of the king of beasts.

Her legs were trembling with fear. Although she had seen a lot in her previous life, she had never seen such a majestic tiger, especially one from Heilongjiang Province. This was a purebred wild tiger, extremely ferocious.

This tiger is very large, nearly two meters long, and weighs about 150 kilograms. It appears to be a male tiger.

The tiger stood not far away, watching her intently without moving. Since the tiger didn't move, she didn't dare to move either. She could hunt wild boars, but she dared not provoke a tiger.

If you anger this tiger, it will definitely pin her to the ground and rub her against it.

She was scared!

These tigers live in deep mountain areas. Although this place is far from the foot of the mountain, it is still not considered to be in the deep mountains. You should know that there are endless mountains here.

Seeing that she didn't move, the tiger took two steps forward. Yun Ningyan's heart trembled, and she even wondered how she would die.

She doesn't want to be eaten!

Ahh!

At this point, she had forgotten that she had a space where she could take refuge.

The tiger stared intently at the water bottle in her hand, as if wondering if the fragrance was coming from the bottle.

Yun Ningyan thought the tiger was going to eat her, and she didn't dare to blink.

Suddenly, a thought struck her: had the tiger come because it smelled the spiritual spring water? She gently shook the kettle in her hand and asked, "You want this?"

She watched the tiger's reaction, took out a small basin from her spatial storage, and carefully placed it on the ground. The tiger's eyes remained fixed on the movements in her hand.

She asked again, "Is this what you want?"

She had heard that tigers in Heilongjiang Province were all sentient beings, so she shook the kettle and asked again, "Nod if you want this, and I'll give it to you."

Daju nodded slightly, and Yun Ningyan's face lit up with joy, apparently drawn by the spiritual spring water.

She spoke again, pointing to the basin on the ground, "I'll pour it here for you, but you have to finish it quickly, otherwise wild animals will come, and I'm scared."